Ex parte TRAINOR et al. - Page 7




          Appeal No. 95-2631                                                          
          Application 07/950,402                                                      


          specification noted by the examiner, we understand these portions           
          as merely referring to whether the present or the updated values            
          of the parameters are displayed, and not to whether different               
          parameters are displayed.  As to Yoshiura, while we appreciate              
          that this reference broadly teaches a display having the capacity           
          to display less than all of the system parameters, there is no              
          suggestion in either Kinoshita or Yoshiura, or need in view of              
          their divergent objectives, for their combination.  This is                 
          especially so in that Kinoshita’s display is large enough to                
          easily display all five of the system’s settable parameters                 
          simultaneously.  This constitutes a first reason necessitating              
          reversal of the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-5, 8 and 10.               
               We also see nothing whatsoever in the combined teachings of            
          Kinoshita and Yoshiura which would have suggested to one of                 
          ordinary skill in the art the step of and/or means for selecting            
          parameters for displaying on a display screen by activating a               
          menu portion of the input means, as called for to one degree or             



          calls for the step of “providing display means for simultaneously           
          displaying only a portion of less than the whole of all of the              
          parameters,” and claim 10 calls for the step of “selecting for              
          display on the display device a portion of less than the whole of           
          operational parameters set forth in a plurality of display menus            
          . . . .”                                                                    
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